Why Pynchon Moved East

[Henry M]

Well, East Coast girls are Hip, I really dig those STYLES they 
wear...

> From:          Ted Samsel <tejas at infi.net>
> Subject:       Re: Why Pynchon Moved East
> To:            sitka at teleport.com (Steelhead)
> Date:          Tue, 11 Feb 1997 11:21:54 -0500 (EST)
> Cc:            pynchon-l at waste.org

> > 
> > For several years Annie Dillard lived and taught college at Western
> > Washington University in Bellingham, on Puget Sound north of Seattle. A few
> > months ago, Dillard was speaking at a gathering for intellectuals and
> > literary crit types in the Midwest. She answered a question on why she
> > moved back East in this manner:
> > 
> > "The Northwest is no place for an intellectual woman. The men there were
> > just wonderful, but the women out there had a kind of culture I couldn't
> > share. They used chainsaws, they canned things, and they breast-fed.
> > 
> > "Out there I was suddenly a bluestocking. And all of these men were
> > following me around everywhere I went. And the husbands and everybody, just
> > this huge train of men behind me, and every once in a while I'd turn around
> > and say: 'You guys...I'm an eastern woman; we're all this way.' But their
> > women were so dull, you know, that the men would give up anything just to
> > hear me for five minutes."
> > 
> > There it is. Tom Pynchon was an Annie Dillard groupie. Followed her back
> > East, where all the women are INTELLECTUALS.
> 
> Right. And belong to the Junior League. And would never dream of
> cleaning their own fish or working on a car.
> 
> 
> tejas at infi.net
>           "I only use my gun whenever kindness fails"
>                                  Robert Earl Keen
> 
> 
> 

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